Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Parental Guide

Inside the mind of killers; not for kids.

Consumerism

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Drinking, drugs, & smoking

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Language

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Sex

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Parents need to know that this crime drama digs deeply into the motives behind violent acts. Younger kids will find the pacing slow but the content very disturbing. From a role model point of view, this isn't an age-appropriate show for kids, since each episode dwells on aberrant behaviors.

Season 8 Episode 14:

Major Case

Season 8 Episode 13:

All In

When poker genius Josh loses $80,000 in a card game, his bookie forces him into collections to work off the losses; when Josh, expecting a blank, fires a gun while collecting money, a real bullet comes out of the weapon.

Season 8 Episode 12:

Passion

When funding for his poetry journal is threatened to be cut, an egocentric poet asks his lover to try to change the mind of the foundation's president; when the lover winds up dead, Nichols and Wheeler discover the deadly passion behind the arts.

Season 8 Episode 11:

Lady's Man

Season 8 Episode 10:

Salome in Manhattan

A celebrity chef's world is upended when his tabloid-friendly girlfriend and business partner dies under mysterious circumstances; Nichols and Wheeler discover desperation and murder while investigating the world of power and privilege.

Season 8 Episode 9:

Family Values

After a flier from a local Catholic high-school drama production seems to connect three murders, Goren and Eames try to understand the psychology of a religious fanatic before he claims another victim.

Season 4 Episode 13:

Stress Position

The murder of a corrections officer leads the Major Case Squad to a corrupt ring of abusive guards in a Brooklyn prison, and the key to exposing the activity lies with a prison nurse who is dating Detective Mike Logan (Chris Noth).

Season 4 Episode 7:

Magnificat

Season 4 Episode 6:

In the Dark

Goren and Eames search abandoned subway tunnels for the killer of homeless men, whose bodies were sold to medical labs, then they learn that each victim had been issued a credit card just before his death.

Season 3 Episode 17:

Conscience

Season 3 Episode 16:

The Saint

An elderly woman's murder leads detectives to investigate the activities of a forger (Stephen Colbert) whose expertise is needed to verify documents proving the sainthood of a 19th-century healer named Brother Jerome.

Season 2 Episode 21:

Graansha

Season 2 Episode 20:

Blink

During the investigation of a college math student who worked as a card-counter, the detectives discover a high stakes computer gambling system; work stations are pilfered by a disguised ringleader with plans for horse-racing scams.